The Cunard Yanks (also known as the Boat Boys or Hollywood Boys) were the young working class British male Cunard Line household crew, who worked on the transatlantic shipping routes from Liverpool to New York and Montreal, from the late 1940s to the 1960s.[1][2][3]
The Cunard Yanks are associated with the importation of 1950s American fashion and musical culture to Liverpool, influencing Merseybeat and the Beatles.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ "The Cunard Yanks & GI Babes". Bristol Radical History Group. 2 November 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Cunard Yanks". Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Mulhearn, Deborah (25 June 2003). "The dream boats". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Coslett, Paul. "Cunard Yanks". BBC Liverpool. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ Booth, Dave (14 October 2016). "Cunard Yanks exhibition opens at Shipping Forecast". YM Liverpool. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
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